Show part of honey expense Is the cost of gasoline beekeepers Bee keepers and scientists have made many estimates as to how far bees beer fly in making a pound of honey hut but until now no one has determined determine autos how many miles by truck an and d automobile the modern beekeeper must travel in doing his part in producing and marketing a pound of it in a survey by the united states department or of agriculture and tile the university of california it was found that california ers whose honey crop in 1933 amounted to pounds tray trav aled miles the extent to which automobiles are used varies with the type of apiary in oregon and maln states where lives hives are not of ten moved from place to place during the honey how flow about 10 PC per cent of the cost of a pound of hone honey y Is in transport transportation aaion whereas in the migratory apiaries in california transportation accounts for from 20 to 25 per cent of the cost |